[tmtranscripts] 06-16-02 - Rio Rancho TeaM

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DATE:           June 16, 2002
LOCATION:       Rio Rancho, NM, USA
TEACHER:        TOMAS
TOPIC:      The Universal Father
Q&A:            Cosmic Connections
            Tomas' Background
            The Nature of God
T/R:    Gerdean
Music:  Dorenda playing, "In the Garden"

TOMAS:  Good afternoon.  I am Tomas.   I am proud to be here in your midst 
today.  You are beauteous blooms in the garden of the Master Gardener, the 
Creator of all truth, beauty and goodness.  I walk among you and see your 
beauty and my heart calls out to yours to embrace your spirit; thus we come 
together in a communion that gives rise to increased bonding of spirit 
fellowship.  

Once again you holiday.  And now we honor the Father. Thus I will spend some 
time with you today in honor of Our Father, the Universal Father, whose 
nature is revealed in the character of his Sons, and the sons of the Sons.  
Now let me not exclude you women, for you, too, have the nature of God.  You, 
too, can reveal the Father.  You, too, can know a fatherly affection, for the 
Father is the father and the mother in one.  

The nature of God is so all-powerful, it is often that you find Him 
impossible to comprehend.  His omniscience, onnipotence, and omnipresence put 
Him so far removed from you that you feel insignificant, for surely He must 
be busy upholding a universe.  And while that is very true, it is also true 
that He comes to you each and every one and he tells you "you are his own" 
for He has implanted in you a part of Him, that part which will help you 
reveal His nature in your very lives.  

>From the human father you learn the first early lessons about the Universal 
Father, just as, as an infant, your first impressions are found in the loving 
nature of the mother, the Divine Minister and nurturer of your care.  The 
pattern of mortal life at this juncture in your development as an evolving 
race of humanity may depict many views of the Father which are so varied as 
to offer little commonality for you as brothers.  For some, their earthly 
fathers are severe disciplinarians, reflecting their belief that God is a 
strict disciplinarian.  There are those who have no belief in God and who 
have no supernal value to offer their young.  There are those fathers who are 
capable representatives of the nature of God in this form of existence that 
adequately testifies to the nature of the Father in heaven.  The offspring of 
these fathers all will have an interpretation of Our Father in heaven based 
upon the influence of earthly fathers.  And thus the relationship of Father 
is of great importance to you and the condition of your world and its future.

In full recognition and appreciation of the greatness of this infinite God, 
our Universal Father, who  indwells each of you, even those whose first 
impressions of the nature of a father have been less than ideal, are afforded 
many opportunities in their life by the unstinting service of the Indwelling 
God Fragment, to experience moments of reality - a reality greater than the 
temporal reality of which you are a part - in such a way that these glimpses 
of divinity and perceptions of eternity are often able to enable these sons 
of God to appreciate the divine nature of the Father in heaven, and when this 
occurs, it is then possible for the sons of the Sons of God to lavish upon 
their own earth fathers the affection that the Father in heaven lavishes upon 
His children far and wide.

To say that the role of a father is a responsibility is truly redundant.  
There is no way to overemphasize the importance of a father's impact on his 
children, and so, how you fathers approach fatherhood is a measure of the 
degree of maturity you contribute to your civilization.  

It is so important that you appreciate the nature of God through knowing Him, 
through feeling His infinite, divine, and personal love for you, that you 
long to know Him and learn from Him.  You want to serve Him because of His 
goodness and His greatness.  Out of respect and love for Him, not out of 
fear.  You aim to please Him and worry not about His judgment for His counsel 
is always steeped in wisdom and in mercy.  This attitude of the Father, when 
learned by the Son, is the attitude that we will use in our relations with 
all we know.  

To love one another with a brotherly affection is the level of love possible 
for those who have not risen to a full appreciation of the limitations of 
mere brotherhood, for how often are brothers and sisters engaged in countless 
acts of sibling rivalry and competition for Father's attentions and Mother's 
affections.  But as you have a fatherly affection for all you know, and all 
you see, you bring with you into your environment the qualities of the nature 
of God which are not jealous, not judgmental, but a reflection of infinite 
and divine love.  

That may seem like an impossible challenge, and yet it is entirely possible 
for you to know the Father and to feel such affinity with Him, that He will 
enable you to represent Him in the world as you pass by, much as He has 
manifested Himselves in the lives of other great and humble men and women of 
God.  

The final quality of Fatherhood I'd like to pause for a moment to appreciate, 
is the nature of God that envelops even those rebellious sons and adventurous 
youth who would turn their back on His plans and dreams for the sons' best 
interests, and who does not alienate Himself, but holds himself open to 
receive his wayward offspring and embrace them even before they think to 
return home to his bosom.  How forgiving the Father seems from our 
perspective, but from the divine point of view, the lost sheep are simply 
that - and thus he sends those of us who will, into the field to aid the Good 
Shepherd in finding the lost sheep, in embracing them back into the fold of 
the Father's love and the Mother's family.

Happy Father's Day to all of you.  Let us all lift our voice in praise and 
thanksgiving of the Father of all who has created such a wondrous universe 
that we might experience life and share the creative nature with Him.  

Indeed, He has prepared a feast for us today!  I behold your personality 
presence in this configuration and yearn to reach out to touch you all as the 
Father has and come to know you better.  In this way our family is 
embellished and emboldened to go forth in confidence of our kinship in spirit 
reality.  How are you all this afternoon?  How can we engage one another in 
communication and communion to the greater delight of us all?  

ELENA:  Tomas, you know me.  I usually am the first one to pipe up.  I just 
wanted to make sure that you were introduced to some new people who are here, 
and I'll just go from my right, around, but I wanted to introduce Carrie and 
Aaron.  I wanted to welcome them and I'm just so glad that they're here.  Of 
course, you remember Emily.  And then Barrie and Rianna.  I wanted to welcome 
them to the group, too.  So… mother usually does that but she's not here so I 
thought I'd do the honors of that.  So I hope Carl and Janet don't mind me 
doing that, but I wanted to introduce them to you and to welcome them.

TOMAS:  I have a full heart in having your added energies in our midst.  I am 
glad to meet you all and, yes, Emily and I are acquainted.  Old friends 
already.  I anticipate getting to know all of you better in the course of 
eternity, but how I look forward to these days of mortal sharing, for this is 
the arena to which I am assigned and in which you live.  Thus, it is here we 
have our many adventures.  Do also convey our affections to Esmarelda who is 
missing from our configuration today, and her energy is conspicuous by its 
absence.

ELENA:  I will.  Thank you, Tomas.

TOMAS:  Are there questions?  Let's hear from the e-mail, and that may give 
you time to formulate an inquiry.  If so, we'll have that to look forward to. 
 Thoroah?

THOROAH:    Thank you, Tomas.  This is from our friend John whose wife and 
family we met last weekend.  They are going to be coming down occasionally.  
They couldn't make it today, but while discussing that with him, I mentioned 
to him that I talked to you and you said there was no problem if they 
couldn't make it today, so I think John half took me serious.  I had to 
explain to him that I hadn't really talked to you but you had probably talked 
to his Thought Adjuster, so he got all kinds of interest out of that, and he 
wrote back:

"Has Tomas given the name of his home planet?  I'm wondering what it's 
called."  He goes on.  "If he has met our Adjusters, has he been here?"  (To 
Los Alamos, where John and Suzanne live.) "Or does he actually have to make 
the trip?  I do believe it's possible.  I've just not had the experience of 
overtly conscious contact with any being, even my Thought Adjuster.  I have 
had some pretty incredible ersonal experiences.  But they happen 
infrequently.  I don't have experience with fully conscious, at-will 
communications with spirit guides.  So that is why the questions.  Thanks in 
advance for any insight."

I didn't pretend to give him any insight, Tomas.  I thought I'd let you 
handle it.

TOMAS:  I perceive our friend John is reaching out to you to me to the Father 
and His agents in a need to know how he might be experiencing spirit reality 
unawares.  I will get back to that.  

First, I would like to greet John, since he has been introduced, and say, 
indeed, we have met through the Spirit.  A part of my allowable purview 
involves a lot of people who you know because they have a profound effect on 
you, one way or another, and this gives me an appreciation of what influences 
you are subject to.  And, what influence you have to bring to bear on others. 
 And so there is a large periphery or outerlying realm where I am able to 
have some degree of awareness, but only as I am in touch with you personally 
and/or brought into an awareness of your desire to be connected to a greater 
reality, am I able to effect much influence.  That, of course, is the same 
for you.  

You are a brother in the spirit, John, and these are your brothers and 
sisters and your consciousness of your spirit kin will increase as your 
desire to know the Father increases, and you will then have opportunity to 
practice your Fatherly skills and divine affection in the arena of your 
mortal life, and that will include these fellows who regard you already as 
one with them.   

I have been to what you would call Los Alamos, but my sense of geographic 
boundaries are not the same [as yours].  I have been to all your homes, so to 
speak, because I am working with your presences.  I don't pay much attention 
to your physical dwelling places.  I am interested in the light that you are. 
 But there are others who are interested in your environment, and often 
attend to you in your home environments.  The various orders of angels having 
a great influence over the midwayers - those beings who are midway between 
men and angels - who are your closest spirit cousins, who interact with you 
in your lives, even now, and of which you are largely unaware.

But this is what I wanted to come back to.  The fact that the universe is 
astir with life, and as you allow yourself to begin to perceive through 
spirit eyes, as Jesus admonished his followers to see with eyes to see and to 
hear with ears to hear, you become aware of another dimension of living 
reality, and this dimension is filled with celestial guides and ministering 
spirits and messenger hosts, many of whom are exclusively devoted to your 
upbringing as extensions of the Father, as we hope to instill in you a 
similar sense of your Selves that will radiate out into your environment and  
reinforce the reality of God in the material world as well. 

Having a knowledge of the spirit influences as extensions of divinity, as 
appropriate and divinely decreed orders of beings who administrate and 
minister to the worlds of time and space, as seraphim and other entities do 
and have done since the beginning of the universe, often you forget yourself. 
 Although most of you live quiet lives, unaware of how much the Father does 
indeed penetrate into the lives of the material beings, how much His 
influence prevails in the material world, you are occasionally made aware of 
another level of reality.  A door of perception will open affording you a 
peek of  a 

Many minds have that moment and abruptly close the door and never seek to 
open it, and there are those who are positively haunted by the memory and 
restlessly seek to regain entrance to that door of perception that will give 
them a greater glimpse into the wonders of the greater universe.  There are 
indeed those who have sought and found these new dimensions and have made 
themselves quite at home therein, and they have, in many ways, found the 
greater reality to be the true reality and the material reality now is a mere 
shadow of that wherein they dwell.  

There is no judgment as to who chooses how much to absorb in this existence.  
There will be other and future opportunities to determine your course.  There 
are some who feel that this life is more than enough to handle, and those of 
you who have young children, homes, careers, loving families, are happy 
enough to let the love of the moment be the eternal reflection of God in His 
greatness.  And this is appropriate.  For there you are able to reveal the 
divine nature to those who have not got the happy perspective of the 
relationship between the Father and the Son that you do.

Those of you who are in full bloom of youth and happiness, of health and 
potential, have an opportunity to radiate the love of the Father to all those 
you touch.  [Those of you] knowing that we are here in support of your 
godlike qualities, are emboldened and strengthened to be even more effective. 
 Yes, I know you well, young man, and your family.  I know you are a son of 
the Father and that He is in your life and in the lives of those you love.  
And thus I will not count noses.  Those of you who come to sit and listen to 
these words, these mota, these messages - those of you who pause to embrace 
the love of infinity for you each, and to share this unspeakable joy with 
your fellows, enjoy a family awareness that transcends an earth family but is 
not a substitute therefor.  

And those of you who are blessed to enjoy both a sublime human and joyous 
spiritual family, are truly fortunate! And, inasmuch as I am assigned to you, 
to this group, I will underscore my words with the admonition that you well 
know, those of you to whom much is given, much will be expected.  And so when 
you grow weary of the work, come and sit with us, and we will reinforce your 
energy and bind up the wounds of your disappointments, in able to return 
again to the field in the good fight of faith and for the victory of 
vanquishing the darkness.

THOROAH:    Thank you, Tomas.

TOMAS:  You are welcome.  How is everyone doing?  This is a long period of 
sustained quietude and attention for some of you.  Are you getting 
uncomfortable?  Are you ready for a stretch?  Or are we able to endure 
another moment for another morsel of edification, enlightenment or 
entertainment?

There was a question, yes, about my home.  Often, after the meeting, my 
students will wonder about me.  Where do I come from and the like.  I have 
managed to side-step your questions for nine of your years.  But I am not 
adverse to telling you something about myself.  I am not from this planet, 
no, nor am I from this system in which your planet revolves.  I am from 
another system.  

Our language was different, obviously, by far, on my world.  We had evolved 
different sounds and the name of the world itself would be foreign to your 
ears, perhaps, but I can tell you that my home world was under the guidance 
of our original Material Son and Daughter, our planetary Adam and Eve. And I 
lived at a time when they had managed to civilize a great percentage of the 
globe. Outside the land masses were other lesser evolved tribes, lacking in 
civility and grace.  By comparison our country (you would say) was highly 
evolved.  

I had a wife.  Her name was Janus.  We had four sons.  I was a Cultural 
Anthropologist.  I studied the peoples on the outside and brought back 
information that was used to lend a hand in attempts to civilize and uplift 
those more primitive and rather barbaric peoples, but I found them also to be 
fascinating and oddly endearing.  My planet might be compared to a word you 
would understand as Almaria.  The name of my home world was Almaria, as your 
home world is Urantia.  

Our planet had not yet had a visit from an Avonal Son.  It would obviously 
not be the Creator Son.  The Creator Son had chosen to come to Urantia for 
his final bestowal, but those other worlds in a universe that do not get to 
host the Creator Son, have the opportunity to experience an Avonal Son, and 
he had not yet arrived by the time I made my way out of the flesh and began 
my ascent through the mansion worlds.  So in effect, my world was much 
younger than your world, but it was in a way more advanced because it had not 
suffered from the Lucifer Rebellion, it was not isolated, and our Adam and 
Eve had not defaulted.  That perhaps gives you some background on my human 
experience.
  
My classified area of study and, if not expertise at least interest, is in 
the realm of character.  I am most intrigued by the nature of character -- 
human character and divine character -- and how to effectively upstep human 
character to reveal divine character.  It's rather how I amuse myself with 
you in this assignment.  I hope you will take advantage of all I have to 
offer.  And that you will also learn how to take appropriate advantage of 
each other. And I say "appropriate" because in this world, it is an 
unfortunate common fact that usury is a way of life and not always for 
altruistic purposes.  I am eager to help inject a degree of character into 
the environment in which you life, beginning in your mind, in your behavior, 
and in your society, for in this way we will advance the nature of your world 
and our goals will one day be met. 

I apologize for talking so much today.  Are there any questions?  Are there 
any comments?

MYRA:   I have a question, Tomas.  Since you like to study character, are the 
qualities of character that we find important on Urantia, are those same 
qualities of character important in the whole universe?  Or do we have some 
that are particularly important the space that we live in.

TOMAS:  These qualities that have value are value throughout all the 
universes, but how you  interpret value differs.  For example, there are 
those who value human associations more than material possessions.  There are 
those who feel a career is more important than parenting.  These values  
therefore are of interest to everyone in degrees.  Character is that which is 
of God.  True character is the divine nature.  And animals have their own 
character; it is not necessarily divine.  And making the adjustment from a 
lesser character to a higher character is sometimes accomplished in a 
lifetime and sometimes not.

Spiritual rebirth activates godlike qualities.  Fear of God, in the more 
primative worlds, attempts to modify behavior, but it does not necessarily 
enhance character, for that which is done out of fear is transient.  Only 
that which is created out of love is permanent, eternal.  

This makes for an interesting study, your question.  It gives meaning to the 
yearning to understand the nature of God, the Universal Father, His qualities 
that influence your way of perceiving life, meaning, values, and those which 
surround you, those values which are of the evolving civiliza-tions, for it 
renders it necessary for you to have perspective, so that you can understand 
the different natures and what motivates those natures, whether those 
motivations are productive or destructive of the next increment of values, of 
value potential.  

It might cause a thinking human being to ponder his own character or the 
character of those he associates with so as to see how character interacts 
and how it abuts.  It is an essential meeting of the minds, in terms of 
communication, and so all the qualities of divinity are true character, are 
what comprises character. And all the underlying/scaffolding attempts to 
develop character are a reflection of how far humankind has come in its 
ascent.   

Even here you can be fatherly and look at those who are lacking character and 
see them as immature, as babies who need more experience in order to develop 
real character, enduring character.  

ELENA:  Tomas, earlier in your lesson, when you were talking about Father and 
were saying that of those can feel the lavish love, then it was easier to 
spread that love to the others, and I don't remember the exact words but you 
were saying that sometimes that seems impossible.  And I can think of a 
couple of examples that would make it more difficult for me, but your 
comments on, I guess, to the degree that you are open to the love that is 
lavished upon us, then as we increase to do that or are more fully exposed to 
the character and the divinity within our Father, then our character is 
developed and our love is possible to extend to our fellows.  Is that right?

TOMAS:  Absolutely.  And you've learned to love the Father more by spending 
time with Him.  If you bring your ill will and bad faith and problems and 
disappointments to Him in trust of his guidance, if you reveal yourself 
openly to Him, He will counsel you in love in such a way as to enable you to 
handle your circumstances wisely and lovingly, and the success that 
transpires in your life, by following His guidance, is so inspiring and 
personal, you begin to prove to yourself the love of God by your very life.  

This begins, perhaps, in fear.  But in faith, if you persevere, you will 
begin to work for and with the Father, and He will work for and with you to 
enhance Reality by releasing love into those situations which were fraught 
with confusion, frustration, anger, alienation and all those anxieties which 
flesh is heir to.  It is the peace which passes all understanding that Jesus 
spoke of - that still, quiet place within -- the Kingdom that is within you 
-- that gives you the realization of the presence of God in you in such a way 
as you are filled with affection for the divine and that will thus in turn 
inspire you to reveal it to those who have not yet known this incredible, 
wondrous Fatherlike nature that is the greatest Reality in the Universe.  

Even though it may be understood by you each from the relationship you had 
with your earthly father in the beginning, it will in time accrue to the 
understanding that the Universal Father, the First Source and Center, the 
Original I AM, is Life and Love is truth, beauty and goodness.  

ELENA:  Thank you.

RIANNA: Tomas, this is Rianna.  I just wanted to say as a comment:  thank you 
so much for explaining the nature of God the Father in the first part of your 
lesson.  I really appreciated that so much.  And I feel that essence of the 
presence in me Very Big and Colorful right now.  And I also have to say this 
human body wants to get up and use the bathroom, so I think I need to take 
you up on that invitation to stretch and move.

TOMAS:  Yes, Rianna, I have been expecting this.  (Group giggles)  However, I 
am so glad for you, daughter, to have come forth and acknowledged your divine 
Source and to reveal Him to us in this we may honor the Father in you and it 
then may acknowledge the Father-like presence of God in each here.  Let's 
party.  (Group laughter)  I reveal my love to you as you reveal your love to 
each other.  Go in peace.  See you next time.  Farewell.

GROUP:  Farewell.  Thank you, Tomas.


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